Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Blogging in Education

Hi this is Laura Carpenter from Corvallis. This is my second term in the Masters program at WOU. I am learning a lot and know that there is so much more I will be learning. I am enjoying the process and have to remind myself that technology moves so fast and that baby steps is the motto for me. Fortunately WOU has some outstanding teachers.

This is my first blog site and I though I have read other blogs (limited) this is my first time creating a blog site of my own. I used Twitter for about 5 minutes twice and then lost interest. I personally do not find Twitter useful for me a this time. I enjoy email and texting. Those are pretty much my mode of electronic communication experiences. I think blogs can work great in the classroom and would like to implement blogging in my own classroom when I find a district that is hiring and hires me specifically :) Oh I almost forgot; I do have a facebook acct. but only use it 1-2 hours per month-yes month-max! I find email+ texting to be valuable. I think blogging can be a great learning tool. Twitter as far as I have found is very limiting but I have very little experience with it-I find it somewhat annoying. Facebook can be annoying because some people over use it-this is my opinion.
Texting and email has changed my life because I can communicate to multiple people at the same time so it can be very efficient. Texting is nice because I feel I can text someone at anytime and not worrying about interrupting them at work etc.
I find that we don't communicate face-to-face anymore. We are addicted to non verbal communication. I find this a little disconcerning at times but I am guilty of it too at times.

5 comments:

  1. I personally will walk across campus to talk to another person instead of using a phone or email. I think I am a face-to-face person.

    Truly you are identifying that the different forms of communication (Facebook, Twitter, email, texting on a phone, Skype) are all forms of communication with different subtleties and different affects. For the most part we will focus on the blog and find its strengths and weaknesses.

    Can you also extrapolate the changes in your life surrounding electronic communication to society in general?

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  2. Ahhhh.. a kindred spirits of sorts. I am joining this class late and still need to set up my Blog (which will also be my first); planning to accomplish this by the end of the night. My technological savvy is limited and I am feeling a little overwhelmed and excited at the same. I have just recently joined the world of textting, I know hard to believe! I avoided this for months and finally realized it was the best way to get a response back from my children.

    I am also a face to face person but appreciate how amazing all of these new ways of communicating truly are! We live in a global society and the potential is amazing for sharing and learning. I need to get over my fears and take the plunge.

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  3. Electronic communication has brought many many changes to my life personally. Some said the telephone was a bad idea because people would stop visiting other people. Well with all of the ways to communicate electronically we really have stopped visiting one another in some respects. With all the 'convenience' of technology we have even less time it seems. I find myself missing human contact but am guilty of non face-to-face communication too. I just think it is the way of the world. But I personally have limited it to texting and email. I think facebook is pretty silly and invasive for the most part. It has its uses and I think it might be replacing facebook in some respects. I also think blogging might be threatening newspapers-sad !! We are losing so much because there is no emotion in electronic communication.

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  4. Laura, I completely agree with your comments on Facebook, it's certainly overused by many. But I also have come to embrace texting as a way of quick contact with my kids - and even co-workers. Not that I believe these electronic means of connection supply any form of quality communication; something really only achieved in person.

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  5. Interestingly, I find that my online communications can be full of emotion and feeling. Some of my online friends are more emotionally available to me than my real life friends who are busy having babies and raising families. I think it is all in how you use it.

    I really dislike the constant "updates" on things like facebook and twitter that have no substance or meaning. I do however find that when you have funny, cool friends who send you interesting and entertaining updates and insights into life, it can start a conversation that is extremely satisfying and that often continues into "real" life.

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